Today is tuesday, july 28, 2015, time is 508 first item is roll call. Commissioner arce commissioner stephenson is commissioner wald is excused commissioner wan we have a quorum. Thank you friday and please everyone please thank friday for kyle volunteering for serving as our secretary thank you clapping. okay. You called item 2 on the approval of the minutes. Thats what im doing item the approval of the minutes of the may 26, 2015 on the environment regular meeting is there an objection . So any comments discussion from the commission on the minutes if there is none can we get a motion to approval of the minutes. To approval of the minutes commissioner stephenson Public Comment on the minutes. Oh, sorry thats not you. Go. Okay david pilpal good evening just to note on the header on each page it has the previous march 24th date i dont think i have any substantive changes ill let friday know also the address for the meeting is just listed city hall 413 so one carl so on it on the addres
The committee will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. Secretary ross is with us. Hell be joining us momentarily. I recognize myself for an Opening Statement, and then my friend from maryland. The census is constitutionally required. It is what ensures that every vote should be counted, every person should be counted. This is a Condition Precedent for accurate redistricting and accurate reapportionment. The census is not only important for purposes of constituting our government, its also important for apportioning the resources and service of our government. So the census is vitally important for a number of reasons. It is also imminently predictable. There are a few things that can foreseen, quite like the census. It happens every ten years, whether youre ready or not. So its incredibly important, beginning with the fundamental truth of counting every one of our fellow citizens. We know well in advance that its coming. So we cant
Public service by americas Cable Television companies. And is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. Next, commerce secretary wilbur ross on efforts to modernize operations of the u. S. Census bureau ahead of the 2020 census. Secretary ross outlined Information Technology investments at his agency and answered questions on reaching out to traditionally underrepresented communities while controlling costs. This House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is 2 two hours and 50 minutes. The committee will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. Secretary ross is with us. Hell be joining us momentarily. I recognize myself for an Opening Statement, and then my friend from maryland. The census is constitutionally required. It is what ensures that every vote should be counted, every person should be counted. This is a Condition Precedent for accurate redistricting and accurate reapportionment. The census is not only imp
I am taking a risk. Where debating the 2018 budget. They are requesting billions of dollars for Immigration Enforcement as well as building a wall. Good morning. Welcome to the Heritage Foundation. We welcome those who rejoin us on the website. For those inhouse, we ask mobile devices be silenced or turned off as we prepared to begin. For those watching online it, you are welcome to send questions and comments. Eating our discussion this theing is dr. Mo house and, Research Analysis chairman. He testifies frequently before congress about federal programs. His commentary and analysis has publications in and he appears on National Television as well. Scientificallys rigorous National Studies and unanimously finds it that are all programs fail to solve the problems they were designed to address. He serves as a professor at George Mason University where he teaches program evaluation. Please join me in welcoming david. [applause] good morning and welcome. Online, we areu organizing the fede
The mission of the government proliferated to such a degree the government couldnt accomplish all it had to do. We ask it to do it with a lot of restrictions on management, people, money, contracts, that make it almost impossible to get the job done so if you find someone who is getting something done in government, that is a true talent. It is also true as your boss said, the only thing we have close to eternal life on earth is a government program. Once in place, it is very difficult to repeal or eliminate the program. Davids work, rachels work document evaluated programs and though i wouldnt say the logical conclusion is eliminate everything, it is true when subjected to rigorous evaluation methodology, programs not having intended impact, enormous room for improvement. Every president until the 80s had the authority to organize the government and it is high time we reempower administrations with that authority because it is so hard to do it otherwise. Congress at least from the Ove